Eat Sleep Die

Film Info

Sweden 2012 | 104 min. Director: Gabriela Pichler

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Eat Sleep Die

Synopsis

Ever wondered who packs the fresh plastic-sealed salad you are having for lunch? Who are the people getting laid off from their factory jobs in small rural towns? Ready for a visit to another kind of Sweden? When the forceful young Muslim Swedish/Balkan factory worker Raša, who has a ”no-shit, never-say-die” attitude to life, loses her job, she faces unemployment.

With no high school diploma, no job – but her boots deeply stained with the mud of the small town she grew up in – Raša finds herself on collision course with society and a comical world of bureaucracy and contradicting values and expectations.

First time actors play all of the main characters in the film.

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Cast & Crew

Director

Gabriela Pichler
Producer

China Åhlander
Screenwriter

Gabriela Pichler
Director of photography

Johan Lundborg
Main Cast

Nermina Lukač, Milan Dragišić, Jonathan Lampinen, Peter Fält, Ružica Pichler
Editor (Cut)

Gabriela Pichler, Johan Lundborg
Sound

Martin Hennel
Original Score

Anders Svensson, Jonas Isaksson
Costume Design

Sandra Woltersdorf

Director's comment

I wanted to make a film about the people I have always loved, but was sometimes ashamed to be part of. Sweden has an uneasy relationship with its self-image that has to come to terms with its status as an immigration and asylum country. I want to be part of the process of redefining Sweden’s national identity. Someone like Raša, an intense, cocky, straight-forward Muslim working class girl who doesn’t give a shit of what others think about her is an obvious challenge to the way Swedes have traditionally seen themselves.

Raša’s story has a lot to do with her own identity and the way people see her, but it also plays out against the background of experiences many young people have in the on-going European economic crisis with high unemployment and increasing internal contradictions within society.

But just as importantly I wanted to develop a more personal topic and show the kind of portrait of a father-daughter relationship that I never got to see on screen when I was a young girl.